Speeches by Hatton.

“Not quite: it was evacuated because it was a serious fire risk and legionella was detected on board.”

“It is on this subject, but to move it forward. As Paul has very eloquently put forward, the previous report by this Committee looked at the poor management of large accommodation sites, which led to unacceptable levels of waste of public money. The recommendations in that report were accepted, so I have some simple que…”

“There has been an NAO Report that looked at this, and it showed that large sites proved to be more expensive per head than hotels. Surely that is now influencing your thinking and the work you do.”

“You can understand, and this is my final point on this, my concern and the concern of many other members of this Committee that, when you have pursued large accommodation sites—such as the £15.4 million spend at Northeye in Bexhill-on-Sea, and the £34.8 million squandered on the Bibby Stockholm barge—the litany of mist…”

“Secondly, another large accommodation site that we spent some time looking at in that previous Public Accounts Committee report was the Bibby Stockholm barge. Some £34.8 million was spent running that barge. Can you offer cast-iron guarantees to my constituents, who have had to put up with that barge, that the industri…”

“Yes.”

“On that point about engagement with local councils, how has there been a significant improvement in ways of working from where we were perhaps two or three years ago?”

“Okay. Finally—this might be one for Josh, as well as Simon—can you outline in a bit more detail how we are going to increase the supply of dispersed accommodation to include local councils? That way, they can start to make the right kinds of decisions about their spending, so that they are not just looking for quick fi…”

“A rush to move on is not very reassuring.”

“So you do not think that those mistakes will be repeated.”

“Coming up to three years on from the purchase, the site has been in no way used to house asylum seekers and there has been no real success in clawing back that £15.4 million.”

“With that in mind, can you reassure the Committee that large accommodation sites will not be procured before that engagement with stakeholders takes place? Otherwise, we will have incidents like HMP Northeye, where the building was riddled with asbestos, or the Bibby Stockholm barge, where the infrastructure of the bar…”

“My concern there, Simon, is that, as the previous Public Accounts Committee Report said, there was a culture where things moved very quickly, key controls and processes were abandoned, and therefore value for the taxpayer was not paramount. It sounds as if that culture has not changed.”

“2. What steps his Department is taking to move clinics and routine appointments into community hospitals.”

“I have been campaigning to restore the rheumatology clinic at Swanage community hospital and the chemotherapy clinic at Wareham community hospital. Both of those clinics were closed despite good health outcomes and high levels of patient satisfaction, and local NHS bosses agreed that they were successful clinics before…”

“Does my hon. Friend share my concern that the current situation in Georgia is not dissimilar to what we have seen in other central and eastern European countries and beyond, where Russia seeks to have greater political influence and control and has mission creep? Unless countries such as the United Kingdom push back ag…”

“I believe that proper resourcing of OFSI is essential. Similarly, other bodies and authorities that fight economic crime must be properly resourced so that they can do their job properly. Three further changes are needed to ensure that there are effective instruments for challenging human rights abuses. First, to free …”

“I agree with the right hon. Member’s remarks. I think that the actions of the previous Government and this Government to tackle the shadow fleet are starting to bite. The measures are hitting the Kremlin war machine and will slash the revenues that Putin desperately relies upon to continue to wage war in Ukraine. Secon…”

“I thank the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) for securing this important and timely debate. I pay tribute to him for the persistence that he has shown in campaigning on this issue over many years, and for his work in this place helping to make and win the argument for deploying…”

“Despite serving a town of nearly 50,000 people, Weymouth station, in my constituency, does not have a working toilet, which presents disabled passengers with a huge barrier to travel. Does my right hon. Friend agree that this legislation, and action from the Government to bring our railways back into public hands, will…”